Photographs from our Pecha Kucha #30: LA –> China

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
25 Years of Discourse in Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design announces a major retrospective exhibition:

UNFINISHED BUSINESS – 25 Years of Discourse in Los Angeles, running from July 13^th through August 26^th, 2012 at the WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design has been at the center of the city’s architectural discourse since 1987. Through each decade – the scrappy 1980s, the experimental 1990s, and the booming 2000s – the Forum has vigorously interrogated the culture of architecture and urban design in Los Angeles. Although geographically positioned on the far edge of the continent, the organization nonetheless impacts the discipline at large: Forum events and programming routinely introduce emerging talent; issues of contemporary design are captured in its exhibitions; and its publications and competitions speculate on urbanism and often challenge the conventions of what architecture means in L.A.

The retrospective Unfinished Business unpacks the organization’s archive, revisiting a history of commentary and debate. In looking backward, the exhibition finds within the Forum’s history the architectural questions, urban design conversation starters, and critical loose ends that are just as relevant now as they were over the past quarter century. Unfinished Business doesn’t come to any fixed conclusion, but opens up a rich and potentially provocative dialogue.

DATES:

July 13th-15th, 2012: Opening weekend, including panel discussions and other events.

July 13th, 2012
VIP reception/opening preview
July 14th, 2012
Aftenoon panel discussions & opening night
July 15th, 2012
related events – t.b.a.

August 24th-26th, 2012: Closing weekend, including the LA Forum Fundraiser, ForumFest 2012.

LA Forum Events @ WUHO
Woodbury University Hollywood
6518 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
90028

2012 Unfinished Business programming includes the On The Map building-tour series in June/July, the LA Forum’s 6th annual Pecha-Kucha Femmes Fatales in July, and the Out There Doing It lecture series in October/November, and other events.

The Unfinished Business Retrospective Exhibition is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts; the City of Los Angeles Arts Development Fee Program, Department of Cultural Affairs; the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Art; the Woodbury University School of Architecture; and the LA  Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Additional sponsorship opportunities for Unfinished Business, ForumFest 2012, and other Forum programming are available.  Please contact: info@laforum.org

Pecha Kucha #30:
LA –> China

Los Angeles architecture &
urban design firms designing
in China

LA Forum Events @Wuho
6518 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
7:00pm – 9:30pm
This event is free and open to the public.

Group 1
SWAGroup
max_ed out, Marc Maxey
Rios Clementi Hale Studio
Woodbury University, Nick Roberts, AIA, Professor
Perkins+Will, Nick Seierup, FAIA
NBBJ, Robert Mankins

[Intermission]

Group 2
Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design, Mimi Lam
Rick Miller, Geographer, UCLA
Synthesis Design + Architecture, Alvin Huang, AIA – Founder and Principal
RTKL, Jay Clark, Vice President
AECOM, Carlos Madrid & Scott Smith
Griffin Enright Architects

-Aaron Betsky; Fragments, Out There
LA Forum Newsletter, December 1989

To see the original article, click here.

Image from 2011 ForumFest

Tickets and Sponsorship Information:

For ticket prices and purchase, go to laforum.org/tickets, and for sponsorship information, please email forumfest@laforum.org.

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE:

FORUMFEST – August 2012

Exact date, ForumFest Honoree, and location to be announced.

2012 UNFINISHED BUSINESS Retrospective Exhibition:

To mark our 25th anniversary, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design announces a major retrospective exhibition: UNFINISHED BUSINESS – 25 Years of Discourse in Los Angeles, running from July 13^th through August 26^th, 2012 at the WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles.  Sponsorship for ForumFest includes sponsorship for the 6-week UNFINISHED BUSINESS retrospective.  For more information about UNFINISHED BUSINESS, click here.

Overview of 2011 LA Forum Programming:

2011 was a diverse year with a mixture of two summer exhibitions, showcasing new park design in Los Angeles and the award-winning New York firm LTL Architects; our summer series On the Map, which annually opens the doors to hard to see new buildings in Los Angeles; our Fall lecture series Out There Doing It, which gives a platform to emerging design practices; and many other activities.

EXHIBITION
New Park Design in Los Angeles

Within the past five years many important parks have been designed for a wide variety of areas within the Los Angeles Basin. Yet there has been little discussion about these parks: what they look like, how they function, and how they relate to contemporary Los Angeles. This exhibition will survey six major parks that are currently being designed, that are in construction, or have been completed recently.

EXHIBITION
LTL – 4 Projects :  4 Scales

This exhibit comprised of four recent project by the New York based firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects (LTL). The projects range from 69 million to 108 square feet, yet each is predicated on a strategy of optimistic opportunism, whereby experiments and inventions are teased out of the very constraints of each project. This site specific installation foregrounds the productive roll of drawing in LTL’s work, turning the walls and floor into etched and printed surfaces.

PECHA KUCHA
Femmes Fatales V

This was our fifth annual Femmes Fatale. These outstanding female practitioners explore, evaluate, and impact the development of architecture and design in Los Angeles. This PK brought together an interdisciplinary lineup of creative professionals who work with the physical enviroment and the community as a focus of their practice.

SERIES
On the Map 2011: Varying Degrees

This series opened the doors to some of the newest and most exciting projects by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, Frederick Fisher and Partners, Morphosis, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects and others, highlighting the contributions that higher education is making to our city.

SERIES
Out There Doing It 2011

Through interrogating and encouraging these conversations, the LA Forum hoped to offer a greater understanding of how architecture is produced, assembled, and disseminated in the contemporary cultural milieu. Architects today co-conspire with a host of key figures in a fluid exchange of imagination spanning from pre-design to post-occupancy. Whether privately volleyed or publicly launched, these dynamic, ad-hoc, and non-linear exchanges provide the fuel that drives design and makes innovation possible.

An illustrated discussion about Los Angeles’ history and imagination for capturing the exotic landscapes of the sub-torrid zone.

SUNDAY, March 4th, 4-7pm
Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

An Incedndiary Traces started as a online gallery on the LA Forum Website and we are pleased to see this project progress. Join artists Hillary Mushkin (Incendiary Traces, Elizabeth Chaney (Tijuana/UCSD), and Steve Rowell (Center for Land Use Interpretation); art historian Jason Weems (UC Riverside), creative researcher Aurora Tang; writer Janet Owen Driggs(Metabolic Studio); and cultural geographers Nick Bauch (CSU-LA) and Rick Miller (UCLA) for images and dialog on Los Angeles’ unique engagement with visual representation, military territorialization, and flora appropriation.

This program will offer historical and contemporary variations on how the palm-dotted landscape is represented for political and cultural purposes, while tracing assorted perspectives on landscape imagery that extend from 19th century drawing and painting practices.

FREE, but reservations requested.

This event is part of the Incendiary Traces project. To learn more, see the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and KCET Departures.

Woodbury School of Architecture and the Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery (WUHO) present Un-Privileged Views, co-curated by Eric Olsen and Keith Mitnick, with Danielle Etzler, Reto Geiser, Keith Krumwiede, Mireille Roddier, Paulette Singley, and Mark Wasiuta. The cross-intuitional curatorial team brings together distinguished architecture faculty from Woodbury School Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rice University, Yale School of Architecture, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Un-Privileged Views collects “anti-iconic views,” both in terms of visual experience and political reality, of a broad selection of cities and promotes unfamiliar views of familiar places in order to change how we think about and represent them. Public images of cities tend to be defined by the iconic photographs with which their buildings, neighborhoods, skylines and vistas are represented, even though the views portrayed in these stereotypical images are frequently at odds with the life of the city and the reality of what occurs in them.

The exhibition includes selections from a juried call for proposals. Participants were asked to consider the views, the techniques, and the visual sensibilities that best encapsulate an attitude or polemic of the city at large. The selected works foreground the physical characteristics of the image, by incorporating different photographic techniques: printing, enlarging, processing, experiments in large format.

Un-Privileged Views opens 6:00pm, March 3 at the WUHO Gallery in Hollywood and features the work of artists and architects from across the world including: Martin Hogue, Eric Mayer and Justin Bernard, Central Standard Office of Design / Kelly Bair, ASK / Katerina Pertselaki, Andreas Stavrianoudakis-Kampas, Michael Borowski, Matilde Cassani, Bryony Roberts, Marie Combes, Genevieve Baudoin and Bruce Johnson, McLain Clutter, Deborah Richmond, Neeraj Bhatia / The Open Workshop, Noemi Mollet, Reto Geiser / MG&Co., Superficial Studio, Danielle Etzler, Mitnick Roddier, Mirelle Roddier and Gerard Smulevich.

LA Forum Events

Patterns Book, Launch+Discussion: Embedded
The LA Forum will host a Book Launch and panel discussion with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of architectural practice PATTERNS at the Vitra Showroom in Culver City.  EMBEDDED documents the work and research of PATTERNS, the award-winning practice founded in Los Angeles in 1999, and includes essays by Spina and Huljich, Todd Gannon, and Marcelyn Gow.
Vitra Showroom, Helms Building
8753 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 – 6-9pm
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Upcoming Los Angeles Area Events

	Lecture by Sarah Whiting, USC Thinking Big Sarah Whiting possesses an indefatigable curiosity about how individuals constitute a public and, more specifically, through what forms(architecture and urbanism) that public manifests itself and is, in turn, formed. Her teaching, writing, and practice focus on the politics and architectures of this public realm. Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 – 6pm MORE» MAP»
	Lecture by Juan Herreros, SCI-Arc Dialogue Architecture Juan Herreros is a PhD Architect, Chair Professor and Director of the Thesis Program at the Madrid School of Architecture, as well as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He has previously taught at EPFL, Lausanne, Architectural Association, London, Princeton, and ITT in Chicago. W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc February 15th, 2012 – 7pm MORE» MAP»
	High Performance Buildings- Concept to Reality, AIA|LA COTE High Performance Buildings (HPB) have been defined as Buildings that integrate and optimize high performance attributes including resource conservation, durability, productivity, functionality and operation. The panel will provide presentations, case studies and discussion to take a 360-degree view of the implementation of High Performance Building Design. Registration Required. 12777 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066, USA February 15th, 2012  - 6pm – 8pm MORE» MAP»
	More Planning, Less Reacting :: A Plan for a Comprehensive Zoning Code Revision, AIA|LA UDC The City of Los Angeles – Department of City Planning is in the process of embarking on one of its biggest initiatives to date: a comprehensive revision to the City’s Zoning Code. As part of their efforts to build awareness and support, staff has prepared a presentation highlighting the need for a new Code, and some early concepts for discussion purposes. 3780 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010, USA February 15th, 2012 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm MORE» MAP»
	Common Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping Common Places features three objects from LACMA’s permanent collection which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a seventeenth-century valance, a cigarette silks quilt, and Alighiero Boetti’s Mappa. The resulting textiles articulate contemporary aspects of global phenomena and suggest that far from being a recent development, globalization has deep historical roots that extended into the home and everyday life. Ahmanson Building, Level 2, LACMA Wednesday, February 18th, 2012 – May 13th, 2012 MORE» MAP»
	Lecture by Marcel Sanchez-Prieto, Woodbury University Marcel Sanchez co-founded CRO Studio with Adriana Cuellar in 2007. The collaborative research practice focuses on urban and architectural design, with projects ranging from private institutions, housing developments to urban renewals and cultural centers. Ahmanson Main Space, Woodbury University Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 – 6:30 pm MORE» MAP»
	A book launch for (FC) Two Cabins by JB A publication on the recent work of filmmaker James Benning The book includes photography by Benning, essays by Ault, Benning, and Dick Hebdige, and extracts from both Thoreau’s and Kaczynski’s writings. MAK Center at the Schindler House Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – 6:30-8:30pm / Conversation at 7pm sharp MORE» MAP»
	Lecture by Peter Trummer, SCI-Arc The Aggregated Figure and Its Unfolding Ground Peter Trummer is Professor and Head of the Institute for Urban Design & Spatial Planning at the University of Innsbruck. He was Head of the Associative Design Program at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam from 2004 to 2010. Trummer practiced architecture with UN Studio before establishing his own firm in 2001. W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc February 22, 2012 – 7pm MORE» MAP»
	New Narratives for “Living in a Modern Way”: California Design at Mid-Century Chaired by Wendy Kaplan and Bobbye Tigerman, co-curators of the current LACMA exhibition California Design 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way,” this two-day symposium features internationally renowned scholars who will examine the exhibition’s themes by presenting detailed case studies and new narratives. Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art February 24–25th, 2012 MORE» MAP»
	Palm Springs Modernism Week’s Elrod House Tours The world famous Elrod House opens its doors to the public for 5 intimate tours during Modernism Week.  Commissioned by interior designer Arthur Elrod in 1968, the house is featured in numerous books, magazines, museum exhibitions, and appeared in the classic 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever. Friday, February 24 – 2 tours available Saturday, February 25 – 2 tours available Sunday, February 26 MORE»
	Reflections of Mid-Century Modernism The USC Architectural Guild invites you to a weekend experience of Reflections of Mid-Century Modernism. We welcome you to share in a truly unique weekend hosted by Dean Qingyun Ma, fully exploring, investigating, and celebrating Sunnylands, A.Q. Jones, architecture, and the value of historic preservation. Rancho Mirage and Palm Springs Tuesday, February 24-26th, 2012 MORE»
	Lecture by Ricardo de Ostos, SCI-Arc Ectoplasmatic Manifestations NaJa & deOstos is a London based architectural studio exploring symbiotic relations between emerging cultural patterns and architectural narratives. W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc February 29th, 2012 – 7pm MORE» MAP»
	Modernist Exhibitions- Perspectives/The White City Photographs by Carol Bishop and Susan Horowitz examines the Modernist legacy of the architecture of Tel Aviv’s White City. They excavate the spirit of the original vision of the architecture while revealing issues about the current look and meaning of the White City. Hennessy + Ingalls Feb. 1 – April 21, 2012 Reception:  Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 – 3-5 pm MORE» MAP
	Lecture by Peter Eisenman, SCI-Arc Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design. W. M Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc Monday, March 5th, 2011 – 7pm MORE» MAP
	Lecture by Jeffrey Kipnis, SCI-Arc Who is Moss? Architectural theorist Jeffrey Kipnis, professor of architectural design and theory at the Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture, has been working on a close reading of SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss’ work with his students at OSU and will present their conclusions to the SCI-Arc community. W. M Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc Tuesday, March 6th 2011 – 7pm MORE» MAP
	Lecture by Dr. David Jason Gerber, USC Dr. David Jason Gerber is an Assistant Professor at the USC School of Architecture. He concurrently works as an executive at Gehry Technologies Inc., a leading Building Information Modeling consultancy and technology company. Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, USC March 7th, 2012 – 6pm MORE» MAP»
	Lecture by Phillippe Rahm, SCI-Arc Meteorological Architecture Philippe Rahm is an architect based in Paris. In 2008, he was one of twenty architects invited by Aaron Betsky to the Venice Architecture Biennale, and in 2009 Editions Archibooks published his book, “Architecture Météorologique.” W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc March 7th, 2012 – 7pm MORE» MAP»
	Buy it Now/Celebrate 2012 Auction, A+D Museum Buy it Now- A special preview of wearable pieces available now! Featured designers: Richard Meier, Elsa Mora and Marmol Radziner. Celebrate 2012 is a salon style runway event and live auction of wearable art created by noted architects, designers and artists including John Baldessari for Gelila Couture, Trina Turk, Wolfgang Puck, la Eyeworks and many more. Buy it now- Bidding closes January 31st, 2012 Celebrate 2012- March 10th, 2012 – 7pm – 11pm MORE» MAP»
	Aquifer: Exhibition V, Woodbury University Wedge Gallery, Woodbury Architecture School, Burbank, CA March 13th-28th, 2012 MORE» MAP»
	Lecture by Thom Mayne, SCI-Arc What’s Next? Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972 as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and research.  He is a founding faculty member of SCI-Arc and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc March 14, 2012 – 7pm MORE» MAP»
	The Los Angeles Conservancy presents Millard Sheets: A Legacy of Art and Architecture Part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1940 – 1980 The Los Angeles Conservancy will offer a special, one-time-only tour showcasing the art and architecture of Millard Sheets in the Claremont and Pomona area.  This special tour will explore Sheets’ indelible mark on the postwar Southern California landscape. Sunday, March 18th, 2012 – 11:30am – 4pm MORE»
	Lecture by Achim Menges, USC Material (In)formation:  Computing Material Gestalt Professor Achim Menges is an architect and professor at Stuttgart University where he is the founding director of Institute for Computational Design. Currently he also is Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall Wednesday, March 21st, 2011 – 6pm MORE» MAP»
	Lecture by Anthony Vidler, SCI-Arc James Frazier Stirling: Notes from the Archive – Crisis of Modernism Anthony Vidler, a historian and critic of architecture, is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.  Trained in architecture at Cambridge University in England, with a PhD in history and theory from TU Delft, he was a member of the faculty of the Princeton University School of Architecture. W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc March 21st, 2012 – 7pm MORE» MAP»
	Drylands Design Exhibition Opening, Woodbury University Arid Lands Institute Architecture + Design Museum, Los Angeles Thursday, March 22, 2012 – 6-9pm MORE» MAP»
	Lecture by Nicholas de Monchaux, SCI-Arc Fashioning Apollo Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect who works at the urban intersection of nature and technology. He is author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural history of the Apollo 11 Extra-vehicular garment. He received his B.Arch with distinction from Yale, and his M.Arch from Princeton. W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, SCI-Arc March 28th, 2012 – 7pm MORE» MAP»
	Exhibit by Pedro E. Guerrero, WUHO A Retrospective A Retrospective presents a rare opportunity to see Guerrero’s seminal contribution to architectural photography, ranging from portraits of architects, commercial work for House & Garden Magazine, and photographs of buildings throughout the United States. WUHO, 6518 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 Opening: April 7th, 2012 – 7pm to 10pm (artist in conversation 6pm to 7pm) Exhibition: April 7th through April 25th, 2012 MORE» MAP»
	Lecture by Jeanne Gang, Woodbury University Visionary architect and 2011 MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a rising international practice based in Chicago whose work confronts pressing contemporary issues. Driven by curiosity, intelligence, and radical creativity, Jeanne has produced some of today’s most innovative and award-winning architecture. Fletcher Jones Auditorium, Woodbury University Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 – 6:30pm MORE» MAP»
	9th Annual AltBuild Expo & Conference, City of Santa Monica Guidance on Rebates, Design, Codes & Products for Pros, Consumers Considered the largest and most-respected green design and building expo in Southern California, serving top industry professionals—architects, builders, contractors, engineers, landscapers—and exhibitors, as well as a large consumer audience. 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401 May 11-12, 2012 MORE» MAP»

Ongoing Los Angeles Area Events

	Exhibit by Keith Krumwiede, WUHO Freedomland Freedomland is the latest in a long line of visionary plans for American living. It is an experiment in reconciling the seemingly incompatible needs and desires that define our current economic, environmental, and, most importantly, political climate. WUHO Gallery Opening: Saturday, February 4th, 2012 – 6pm Exhibit: February 4th-19th MORE» MAP»
	Under the Big Black Sun California Art 1974-1982 Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81 constitutes the most comprehensive survey exhibition to date to examine the exceptional fertility and diversity of art practice in California between 1974 and 1980, a unique period in American history when the political and social roles of artists, the authority of institutions, and the “objecthood” of art were all being questioned. MOCA October 1st, 2011- February 13th, 2012 MORE» MAP»
	Initial Points: Anchors of America’s Grid This new exhibit looks at the historic surveying infrastructure of the USA, and how literal monuments of place have evolved into expressive cornerstones of space. CLUI Los Angeles, 9331 Venice Blvd., Culver City Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 2012- 7pm – 9pm Event: Saturday, January 28, 2012 – 12 noon Jesse Vogler and Louis Schalk from the Institute of Marking and Measuring will lead a field session and surveying workshop in association with the exhibit. MORE» MAP»
	Exhibition by Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Amorphis, SCI-Arc Go Figure Seeking to shift the role of the figure from a metaphorical device to a subliminal one, Go Figure promotes simultaneity in the evolution of the delineated figure by distributing cartoon and visceral features across a three-dimensional, spline based form. Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th, 2011- 7pm Friday, February 10th, 2011 7-9pm: Exhibition Discussion with Ramiro Diaz-Granados and SCI-Arc January 13th – February 26th, 2012 MORE» MAP»
	Women Hold up Half the Sky LAYER is pleased to announce the opening of its installation “Cloud” at the Skirball Cultural Center. The exhibit addresses gender equity and is based on the book Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. “Cloud” is suspended over the gallery as a tangible representation of the power of individuals coming together to effect change. Skirball Cultural Center 2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA October 27, 2011-March 11, 2012 MORE» MAP»
	Death and Life of an Object Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents Death and Life of an Object, a three person exhibition featuring sculptures and installations by Lynn Aldrich, Laurie Frick and Tim Hawkinson. The transformation of everyday objects and materials into artworks has been a pursuit of all three artists in this exhibition. This program is free and open to the public. Edward Cella Art + Architecture 6018 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11th, 2012 – 6pm to 8pm February 11th, 2012 – March 31st, 2012 MAP» MORE»
	California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way” This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 350 objects-furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design-the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Resnick Pavilion LACMA October 1, 2011 – March 25, 2012 MORE» MAP»

Former LA Forum Online Gallery artist Jennifer Gilman’s work takes the act of drawing and makes it physical. For ≥ Drawn, her site-specific installation in the Wedge Gallery, she uses the space as a canvas. Her work is performed at a 1:1 scale or as she writes, “the body occupying the building and the drawing simultaneously.” Gilman will transform the gallery over the course of several days, moving through the room and shifting her medium to respond to particular cultural, material, and phenomenological atmospheres. When the exhibition opens on Friday, February 10, it will mark just one point in the evolution of the piece. As such, Gilman’s ≥ Drawn is, as the title suggests, greater than any static drawing.

“We draw imaginary lines between all things—between art and architecture, drawing and sculpture, 2D and 3D, past and future, space and time, micro and macro, mind and body, thought and feeling, oneself and other,” says Gilman. “It is in straddling these thresholds that transubstantiation becomes possible: one eye cast in each direction, each seeing an alternate reality, the two images superimposed and vibrating in the imagination. It is this ambiguity that allows for the richness of association that interests me the most.”

JENNIFER GILMAN
Jennifer Gilman is an artist and architectural Designer based in Los Angeles. Her recent exhibitions include “Roma Rossa” a temporary site specific installation at the Gallery of the American Academy in Rome where she was a Visiting Artist for three months, and “Liminal Drift,” as a featured artist for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s Online Gallery.

WEDGE GALLERY
Located in a sliver of the School of Architecture, the Wedge is the exhibition venue for the Los Angeles–Burbank campus. The gallery space presents multiple shows a semester, each exhibition fitting into an overarching theme. As a venue, WEDGE addresses and brings together two audiences, the Burbank campus and Los Angeles’ greater architecture and design community. The space exhibits student work, giving students the opportunity to learn from their classmates’ drawings and models, as well as work by invited architects, artists, and faculty members.

More info here.